CANADIAN INVENTIONS
A Canadian telecoms and TV company still bears the name of this Canadian who invented the telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
If you search the internet for the origin of this tech company’s name, you’ll find that is based on a mathematical term for a number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
What is Google?
Perhaps it’s taurine, a byproduct of cow bile, that “gives you wings” when you take a sip of this energy drink.
What is Red Bull?
This country joined the E.U. in 1973 but never adopted the single currency. After a referendum in 2016, they officially left the E.U. January 31,2020.
What is the U.K.?
A culture that has values or lifestyles that are in opposition to those of the current accepted culture.
What is a counter culture?
The first game of this sport, invented by Canadian James Naismith in 1891, was played with a soccer ball and peach baskets.
What is basketball?
When created in 1893, this soft drink was originally called “Brad’s Drink” but was renamed 5 years later based on the word “dyspepsia” for its ability to aid in digestion.
What is Pepsi?
These colourful, legume shaped candies use shellac, insect secretions, to make them shiny.
What are jelly beans?
Despite being surrounded by member states, this country has remained neutral and never joined, although they do trade in the single economic market.
What is Switzerland?
Canada and this "down under" nation are the only non-European countries that crack the top 10 in the world for net-minimum wage.
Thomas Edison is best known for the invention of this, but it was actually Canadian inventor Henry Woodward who filed the first patent in 1874 and later sold it to Edison.
What is the light bulb?
This toy company’s name is based on the Danish words “leg” and “got” which translates in English to “play well.”
What is Lego?
The main ingredient in Jell-O, and what gives it it's jiggle, comes mainly from pig skin.
What is gelatin?
This, the smallest independent state in the world, is in Europe, but not a recognized member of the E.U., even though it is completely surrounded by one of its founding members.
What is Vatican City?
The unemployment rate in an economy is this type of economic indicator.
What is lagging?
This breakfast staple was invented by Marcellus Gilmore Edson in Montreal in 1884. The smooth version wasn’t introduced until 1922.
What is peanut butter?
This product, named for the creator’s 40th attempt at creating a water displacement product was originally meant to prevent corrosion. Now it has many uses, including when police used it to remove a naked would be burglar from an air conditioning vent.
What is WD-40?
Some manufacturers pump meat with this liquid, which can more than quintuple the amount of sodium in the meat, to make them heavier and worth more when sold.
What is salt-water?
This country, not the U.S. state, is not an official member of the E.U, but does have a free trade agreement and an open border with E.U. nations.
What is Georgia?
In some cultures it is appropriate to take a gift for a host of a business meeting, doing so is an example of this.
What is business etiquette?
Although his name is most associated with airplane manufacturing, Canadian Joseph Bombardier developed the first version of this winter machine in 1935 to help people move through unplowed roads.
What is the snowmobile?
This candy with many faces, originally marketed as a breath mint takes its name from the first, middle and last letters of the German word “pfefferminz” meaning, “peppermint.”
What is Pez?
If you can't find this ingredient in pod form, or its extract, a popular substitute for manufacturers is castoreum - a secretion from the castor sacs in a beavers backside.
What is vanilla?
Although the capital is in Asia, this country is technically in both Europe and Asia and is working through the process of becoming an E.U. member.
What is Turkey?
The business cycle is made up of these 4 periods.
What are recession, trough, expansion and peak?